This is the story of the construction of birch-bark canoes and of a 150-mile trip through the Maine woods in those graceful survivors of Native American technology. As McPhee presents the lore of the bark canoe, he also narrates an extraordinary story: of battling tenacious winds on Chamberlain Lake, of exhausting portages, of coming upon scenes of breathtaking beauty, and of the slowly developing tension among the five people on the trip.
A book for nature watchers, for boatmen, for traditional craftsmen and for armchair adventurers.
This is also a book of great literary strength. The acclaimed author was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for another work, Annals of the Former World.
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